National Republican., 1887-05-30


feeling after the ewar than before the war. No
more use OF gunpowder In this country, except
lot iihe practice, or Fourth OF July pyrotch-
nlcs, or q shot at roebuck In the Adrlon.
lacks. Brigedier generals in the southern
confederacy making their fortunes as lawyers
IN the northern cities, Rivers OF Georgia,
Alabama, and North Carolina turning mills OF
New England capitalists. The old lions OF war
Fort Sumpter, and Moultrio, and Lafayette,
and Pickens, and Hamllton-sound asleep on
Their Iron paws, and instead OF raising money
raising money for the Bartholdl statue on
Bedloes Island, figure OF liberty with upliited
torch TO light the way TO oil who want to
SoH Gould sad no cross 81 Se IpssS ue hSn So
contestants without fighting your way with
keen steel, or getting through by passes care.
Hon y neaG on at Ta SSR @ BY Sm Nets
York TO Charleston or New Orleans, to go clear
through, and there is no use for any weapon
sharper or stronger than steel pen. Since
the years OF time began their roll has there
ever been In about two decades such an over.
mastering antithesis as between the war time
Of complete bitterness and this time OF COM
Contrast also the domestic life of those times
with the domestic life OF these times. Many
OF you were either leaving home or far away
What morning that was when you len home home, !
Father and mother crying, sisters crying; you
smiling outside, but crying inside everybody
nervous and excited: Boys. Of the blue, and
the Hudson or the Savannah or tho Andre.
scoggiD, don't you remember the scenes at
the front door, at the rail car win
hu2za could. not drown out tho
suppressed sadness. Don't you remember
those charges to writo home oiten, aud take
good-by kisa which they thought and you
thought might be forever. Then the home
sickness, as YOU paced the river bank on n
starlight night on picket duty, aud the sly
n a ri n
song about The old folks at home Tue
dSner dny and % hSsd Se dsma sGs on tsoss whtssnsyns
presents, and the. long nights in the
hospital SO different from tho sickness when
you were at home with mother and sister at
the exact moment for the medicine; aud that
forced march when your legs ached, and your
head sched,, and your wounds ached, and
ness which had mi in Il % suiiocSticn % and pSnE
worse than death. You never got hardened as
did the euardsman In the .Crimean war who
heartlessly wrote home to his mother:
II do not want to see any more crying letters
come TO the Crimea from you. Those have
received ! put into my rifle amer loading II,
and have fired them at the Russians because
III you have seen as many killed as i have
you now have"
knapsack was found after his death In tho
American war there was generally a careful
package containiDg!a Bible, q few photographs,
tens of ihouands s Of homes @ waited ate for heWs nsRa
Parents saying: Twenty thousand killed l
wonder II our boy was among them" Faint
Ing dead away In postotlices and telegraph
sobs and agonies of kindred waiting for
news, or dropping under tho announcement of
bad news. Speak, swamps of the Chicka-
hominy, and midnight lagoons, and fire RATS
Of the Mississippi, and gun boats before yicks.
burg, and woods of Antietam, and tell to all
the mountains and valleys, and rivers and
times that have never rs been ssyliabied u ""'
Beside that domestic perturbation aud homo
sickness of those days put the sweet domesticity
81 q, To-Day; The only camp fire you now ever
hearth. Instead of a half ration OF salt pork
repast luxuriant because partaken of by
loving family circle and In secret confidence
letters you, tho young soldier, took so long In
your tent 10 write, and that you were so
particular to put In the mail without any
your comrades. God spared you to get back,
and though the old'people have gone You have
home OF your own construction. aud you
sn SnS Soeiy hSss Sn vey sw se @ n
this side. of heaven. The place where
you want TO die. To write the figures OF 1852
set up four crystals, crystals Of tears. To write
the figures of 1887 stand up four members of
iaxen hair, If Lean get them to stand still
Contrast also the religious opportunities Of
twenty years ago with now, Often on the
manded by officers who considered the names OF
God and Christ OF no use except to swear by.
Sometimes the drumhead the pulpit, and you
standing in heat or cold, all the Surroundings
OF military life having tendencyt to make you
reckless. No privacy for prayer or Bible read
ing. No sound of church bells. sabbaths spent
brought up. Now, the choicest sanctuaries,
easy pew, all Christian surroundings the air
full OF God and Christ, and heaven and dox-
Gfl9gy bhlS Three m9ultains iling themselyes
its law, Mount Calvary pleading the, Sacrifice,
Mount Pisgah displaying the Promised Land.
Contrastof national condition: 1862,
eSsnsaE aeTasaIOn money By Sropeaty hs millions aa s In
1887, the finances so reconstructed that ali
the stock gamblers of Wall street combined
tating gangrened limbs, and studying gun
shot fractures and inventing easy ambulances
for the wounded and dying; 1857, surgeons CIV
culture, ofcommerce or mechanical life: the
rushing Of the ambulance through our streets
not suggesting battle. but quick relief of some
FIVE million inhabitants In this land; 1887 fifty
five millions; 1862, wheat, about eighty million
bushels. 1887 the wheat will be about five hun
dred million bushels. 1862, Pacific coast five
weeks from the Atlantic; 1857, for three reasons
Union Pacific, Southern Pacific and Northern
Pacing, only seven days across. Look at the
long line of churches, universities, asylums,
years this land has been decorated.
Living soldiers OF the north and south, take
new and specia! ordination at this season Of
en Nothing I too sood for Ser r
memories. Turn all the private tombs and the
national eemeteiies into gardens. Ye dead of
Malvern Mall ad H and Cold hathor and Mgrirees-
land Gap, and field hospital, receive these
floral offerings of the living soldiers.
But they shall come again, all the dead
troops. We sometimes talk about earthly mill
tary reviews, such as took place in Paris An the
time of Marshal Ney, In London In the time OF
Wellington. and in our own land, but what
tame things compared with the final review,
divine and angelic inspection. st. John says
the armies Of heaven ride on white horses, and
don't know.bpt many q the old cavalry
and worn out in the service, may have resur.
rection. II would be only fair that, raised up
and ennobled they would be resurrected for
the grand review of the judgment day. 1t
their BODIES than to reconstruct ours, aud
should be very. glad to see them among the
VIII white horses OF ap9ealyptic vision: Hari to
tbe last Judgement They Vco come up. b.
All the armies of all lands aud
all centuries, on whichever side they
the right or the wrong They come They
come Darius and Cyrus, and Sennaeherlb,
and Joshua. and David, leading forth the
armies OF scriptural times Hannibal and Ham
ilcar leading forth the armies of the Carthage.
mans; Victor Emanuel and Garibaldi leading
on the armies OF the Italians, Tamerlane and
Ghengis Khan followed by the armies of Asia;
EIrot atrtNu In1 hstu fntn
and Xerxes, and Alexander, aud Semifamis
and Washington, leading battalion after bat
TALON. The dead American armies of l776 and
dead In our civil war. They come mp. They
pass on In review The six million fallen In
Napoleonic battles. the twelve million Ger
mans fallen In the Thirty Years War; fifteen
million fallen in the war under Sesostrls, the
twenty million fallen in the wars of Justiniau